Welcome to the Jonathan Shuttlesworth Podcast. To stay connected, go to revivaltoday.com. And now, here is Evangelist Jonathan.
SPEAKER_00I want you if you have your Bibles, open them with me to Genesis. Before you go to Genesis, I'm going to start tell you why I'm reading Genesis. Go to Galatians chapter 3. Then we'll go back to the Old Testament. Galatians 3. Somebody wrote on social media a couple years ago, no one will ever be able to sum up the gospel in one tweet. And I wrote back, want to bet, and then copy and pasted these two verses. This is the whole thing. Galatians 3, 13 and 14. But Christ has redeemed us. Everybody say, has redeemed. So there's nothing I'm trying to get redeemed from. And that's why no proper prayer should be in the future tense. Lord, as you will, take this sickness from me. Everybody say, I am redeemed. But Christ hath redeemed us from all the curse of the law, being made a curse for us, for it is written, Cursed is everyone that hangs on a tree. That the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ, that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. Let me see in the New Living Translation, go to verses 26 through 29. Same chapter. Galatians 3, 26 through 29, NLT. For you are all children of God through faith in Christ Jesus. And all who have been united with Christ in baptism have put on Christ like putting on a new garment. There is no longer Jew or Gentile, slavery free, male and female. For you are all one in Christ Jesus. And now that you belong to Christ, you are the true children of Abraham. You are his heirs, and everything that God promised Abraham belongs to you. When I read that and it jumped out at me at 23 years old, come about a year and a half out of Bible college. I immediately, I never, I don't know, maybe somebody taught it and I missed it or wasn't paying attention, but I never heard anybody talk like that. I read that everything that God promised Abraham belongs to me. And so I thought, well, wait a minute then. In old time Pentecost, if you grew up Pentecostal holiness especially, they would teach the Old Testament like it was an anomaly. God blessed people then, God gave people homes, God gave people riches, but that uh somewhere between Malachi and Acts, God made some bad investments and uh maybe got in with Bernie Madoff and squandered all of heaven's money. And so he doesn't bless like that now. But when you read that in Galatians post-resurrection, Christ has not only redeemed, now notice you got now most many, many people, probably most people that go to church every Sunday, don't know either of those two things. They don't know they've been redeemed from the curse, and they don't know that they have been open to the blessing that God gave Abraham. Can you say amen? So I went back to Genesis and read all of Abraham's life, and then I took a yellow legal pad and just wrote down every promise God made him, or something that you could see happening by God's power. So start, I'm not gonna read all of it to you, but I'm gonna show you some highlights. Genesis 12, 1 to 3. Now I realize that I'm not reading some guy from history that God chose to bless. Everybody say, all these blessings are mine. So when I'm reading Abraham, that's why I've never done the 23 in me to find out my ethnicity. I don't care what Irish people have as normal or English people have as normal. I see now that I am the seed of Abraham. And then when I read his life and the life of Isaac and the life of Jacob, that is what God did for them that's now available to me. In fact, we now have a better covenant based on better promises. If you're thankful for that, can you say amen? So here's where it starts Genesis 12 1. The Lord had said to Abram, Leave your native country, your relatives, and your father's family and go to the land that I will show you. And I will make you into a great nation. Pay attention to that because I'm going to get uh into that as an entire point. Say that with me. I will make you into a great nation. Now, imagine that. Imagine you being made a nation within your nation. What does that mean? I mean, you don't even need any faith to latch on to this because you already see unbelievers doing it. Elon Musk is a nation within a nation. Uh Jeff Bezos is a nation within a nation. They have their own security, they have their own intelligence forces to find out what's going on in markets overseas. They are not operating hoping things work out in the United States. The United States is hoping things work out with them. If they go down, the United States goes down. They're carrying uh much of the economy. If Elon Musk's company's tanked, basically everything that's carrying the market right now is in the tech sector and AI, and it would all crash. They're strong. They're strong men within a strong nation. There was a guy in Connecticut I read about about probably 10 or 12 years ago now. He um the state of Connecticut f got wind that he was planning on leaving the state of Connecticut. And they sent representatives from the government to ask him if he would please consider staying to live in Connecticut, because his state taxes made up 25% of the state of Connecticut's revenue. Let me tell you something. When you carry that kind of wealth, there's a power that comes with it. Because when they ask you to stay, you can say, okay, I'll stay, but I'm not too enthused with this, this, or this. And if you'll change those three things, uh, then I'll stay. Well, if you're wicked, you can make them do wicked things. But if you're righteous, you can use that influence to push righteousness, and that's the purpose behind God's prosperity for you and your family. Can you say amen? Can you say a better amen? It is not the will of God to do what almost all Christians do, which is watch the news and watch their culture being influenced by other people. God is looking for people in Radcliffe, Kentucky that'll open their hearts up and say, Lord, here I am. I'm available and open to your blessing. Use me to impact my generation, and God will do that beginning tonight in Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you shout aloud, Amen? I will make you into a great nation. I will bless you and make you famous, and you will be a blessing to others. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse those who curse you, and all the families of the earth will be blessed through you. So Abraham departed, as the Lord said. 13 1. So Abraham left Egypt and traveled north into the Negev along with his wife and Lot and all that they owned. Abram was very. How come you won't say it? It's in the Bible. If that's not in the Bible, then you can rip John 3.16 out too. It's all-inspired word of God. Abraham not was rich, Abraham was very rich. But how many of you know that doesn't mean material riches? It means so much more. No, God knew there'd be morons that talk like that. So then he put in parentheses, just so you couldn't screw it up, how he was rich. Abraham was very rich in my silver. Yes, and then he kept going from there. That's one chapter where that happened. Now I want to tell you something. My daughter, when she was here and took the offering, made a comment about a disagreement she had with her Bible teacher. The first time I left it alone, and then when she did it a second time, I got involved. I've never called the school. My parents, up until I was a senior, my mom got into it with one of my teachers because she crossed the line. But my mom would always say, and my dad, if you got in trouble, then uh, you know, you're in trouble for getting in trouble. I'm sure you have a side of the story, but just quit causing trouble. And they would make me deal with my own battles with my teachers. But the first time her Bible teacher at Christian school said, today in Bible class, we're gonna cover three groups that are loosely associated with Christianity, but they're not what the Bible they're not really uh mainstream Christians. The first is Jehovah's Witness, the second is Mormons, and then she taught on the third group people that believe that healing is for today and that prosperity is for today. And so when she said that and basically grouped me and my church in with Jehovah's Witnesses and Mormons, I uh I had a bit of a problem with it. So I called the school and I said to the principal, I said, uh, just because I send 13 kids and pay their tuition to your school doesn't mean you have to teach things that are against the Bible or violate your conscience. But if you're gonna teach that our church is a cult, then let me know so I don't have to send my daughter anymore because there's no point sending her to Christian school. She's gonna have to armor herself as if she went to public school to defend her beliefs. I said, uh, I said, do you really believe that? I said, do you understand how asinine it is to tell a classroom full of private school kids that prosperity doesn't come from God? Everybody that's in that class either has a parent that's rich, the $13,000 a year to go to school. They're not they're not poor and they're not middle class. Their parents are rich, or they know a rich person who decided to take $13,000 of their money and send them to school. How dumb can you be to tell them that? And then I said this: I said, you know, it's interesting that I got an email. You said that we shouldn't want money and we shouldn't go after money. But I have an email today from your school asking if I'll give another $10,000 like I did last year. So it's interesting that the prosperity person isn't asking for money, but the person that says that money uh doesn't matter is emailing asking for money from the prosperity person. One old preacher said the prosperity message pays for all other messages, it sure does. Because somebody has to know all the people that bash prosperity light up Kenneth Copeland's phone asking for a hundred thousand dollars for their mission outreaches. Because unless you get a revelation on the blessing of God, you're gonna be a beggar all your life, but you're never gonna beg any day of your life because Jehovah Jirah has not changed, and El Shaddai is still the God of more than enough. Can you say amen? Yeah. Genesis 17. Everybody say, Abraham's blessings are mine. And then uh then I'm gonna read the feeding of the 5,000. Genesis 17. When Abram was 99 years old, the Lord appeared to him and said, I am El Shaddai. This translation says, God Almighty, the God of more than enough. If you look up the meeting, the many breasted one is what it means. So Abraham was a cattle rancher. God was saying normal cattle only have enough breasts for so many children, and then the ones that don't get a breast become the runt. But I'm the God, I'm the many-breasted one. I have more than enough provision for all my children. Say with me, he's the God of more than enough. He's a superabundant God, as we're gonna see here that when Jesus fed the 4,000, there were seven baskets left over. When he fed the 5,000, there were 12 baskets left over. The more he fed, the more was left over. Can you say amen? So God appeared to Abram and said, I am El Shaddai, the God of more than enough. Serve me faithfully and live a blameless life. And I will make a covenant with you, by which I will guarantee to give you countless descendants. At this, Abram fell face down on the ground. Then God said to him, This is my covenant with you. I will make you the father of a multitude of nations. What's more, I'm changing your name. It will no longer be Abram. Instead, you will be called Abraham, for you will be the father of many nations. I will make you, verse 6, remember Galatians 3:14? Everything God promised Abraham belongs to you. I will make you what? Extremely extremely fruitful. That means everything you touch is blessed. That means you might start off with a small mechanic shop, picking up a car to fix here and there. But before it's all said and done, you get a reputation like my brother-in-law, that's a general contractor, did just being a Christian. He does excellent work. He comes in below the price that he quotes. You know, if you quote somebody a price as a general contractor, and you come in under that price, and it's par for the course for a general contractor to quote you a price, then come in double and take twice as long as what he said. My brother-in-law, Abel finishes before the date he quoted and comes in under what he said. Word starts getting out pretty quick, and before you know it, your problem goes from not having enough jobs to having so much work, you have to hire more people and build more offices. That is what the blessing of God produces in your life. That's what tonight is. Tonight I'm not just sounding off about prosperity. This is the last days, and God has an agenda for the last days. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just. Airplanes are not for Jeffrey Epstein. Islands are not for Jeffrey Epstein, buildings are not for the heathen. The wealth of the wicked is laid up for the just, and God has it coming into your hands tonight. In Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you say amen? I will make you extremely fruitful. Not fruitful, extremely fruitful. I titled tonight 12 Purposes of God's Lavish Prosperity for His Children. I threw in lavish because people don't even like the word prosperity, so I tried to make it more hurtful. Because it gets underrepresented. You know, there was a lady that was arguing in one of my posts, arguing with herself. If you saw her profile picture, they should take a picture of her eyes and put in the Smithsonian so fathers could take their sons to study what a crazy lady looks like. And she was saying, How uh I don't like him. Well, you're welcome not to like me. But you can't argue with scripture. And then she said, as a Christian, she said, don't get because somebody was saying, Well, you say you don't believe in prosperity, you're typing this on a $1,500 MacBook and you have a car and a house. She said, No, don't get me wrong. I believe God meets your needs, but I don't believe in this excess. Well, then you got a problem with a lot of scriptures. The Bible doesn't say delight yourself in the Lord and He'll meet your needs. It says delight yourself in the Lord and He'll give you what? Now, listen, I'm gonna take a whole night on prosperity, which I haven't done probably in two years. And I'm gonna do it so that even if you don't like prosperity, at least after tonight, you can say, I heard it and I really don't like it. But just take a night and listen, because I'm not gonna hold one thing back. Everybody say, Delight yourself in the Lord. And he'll give you the desires of your heart. And then say this: He gives seed to the sower. Everybody say he gives bread to the eater. And what are you? Everybody say I'm both. Yeah. So you know, I don't even like the teaching, and it would be for my benefit to tell you everything God gives you is for the kingdom because I'm taking the offering tonight for our ministry. But everything God gives you is not for the kingdom because you die of starvation and exposure. God has seed to sow, and God has bread for you to eat. And God actually, how many of you heard that I'm going to Venezuela to go preach? You know, it takes a different kind of level of ministry to do that. In fact, let me see Luke chapter 4, verse 18 in the NLT. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Jesus said. For he has anointed me, let me see King James, to preach the gospel to the poor. The Spirit of the Lord is upon me because he hath anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor. Say with me, it takes an anointing to preach the gospel to the poor. Yeah, you can play religious games in America. You can charge $300 for VIP seats and $100 for general entry and $75 for kids. If you do that in Venezuela that's been in collapse for 30 years, nobody's coming. You can preach the gospel to anybody when you don't have the anointing, but you can only preach the gospel to the poor with the anointing. Because it takes faith to go spend money to preach to people that don't have any money, but God is the one that provides. Can you say amen? And so that's what enables you to do that. Prosperity. Prosperity enables you. I don't even even going uh uh August 1st. I couldn't plan to go to August 1st to go preach. I'd have to wait till United Airlines announced or Star Alliance that they're resuming flights to Caracas, but now I have my own plane, so I can do whatever I want. Can you say amen? And so I don't understand how people can't see that. It's not God's will for your need to be met. That's survival. Even if you just took Matthew 25, the basic requirements of a Christian are to clothe the naked, feed the hungry, visit the prisoners, and take care of orphans. Can you say amen? So I want you to see between the Abrahamic covenant and then what God told us he could have, that God's not looking just to meet your needs. I will make you a nation. I'll make you a nation of people that's able to do uh uh what even a nation can't do. Can you grab Tessa and let me know when you have it? I did something last year. I was gonna take my family out to Las Vegas and Arizona, where we like to go to vacation. Las Vegas has great restaurants, and as a Christian, basically the only thing we're allowed to do for fun is eat. So I like going there. And then Arizona is the desert, and that's where Jesus used to go to relax, and I like doing that too. So I was going out there and I was gonna spend a boatload of money on my family. And I thought, you know what? I don't feel guilty about that, and I wasn't doing this out of guilt, but I thought, you know what? I'm gonna take the same money that I'm about to spend on my family, and I'm gonna go spend it on people that don't have families or proper families. So there's a Section 8 area next to our church, and uh I I I actually got an idea from the Lord that I'm gonna use from now on. Don't contact the government, contact the gang leaders. And so uh they'll get it done. That's what the Lord spoke to me. You say, How can you work with criminals? I told you, I'm not working with the city, I'm working with the gangs. So yeah. So there was a there's a guy that goes to our church, and uh he's been he got saved out of that lifestyle. I said, Do you still have connections? He said, I do. I said, Well, tell those leaders of those gangs that uh your pastor um has some money he's gonna buy a lot of toys with because he wants to make sure every kid can have Christmas. And uh, this is not with church money, this is with my money. And I said, uh, tell him that he doesn't trust that the government will actually get it to the kids. And he but he trusts you that you know who needs it and you'll be able to get the word out. Well, that resonated with them. And so I showed up, I took $20,000 of my money, gave it to my nephew, and had him buy toys. I was surprised how much $20,000 could buy. In fact, we we weren't able to give away all the toys, I don't think. And it was stacked with toys. So I loved working with the gangs because when you work with the city, you have to get a permit. But the gangs, I said, how are you able to get this this uh building? They said, We secured it. I guess that means you just surround it. I like that. Less paperwork, no voting, no nothing. And then uh I actually had no problems with them. Then they organized it because they were there, people behaved. Everybody only took one toy at a time. It was like way better than I've always worked with a city like a moron. I wish I'd have worked with gangs from the beginning. It was the easiest gospel work I've ever done in my life, and so everybody got toys. Well, then the guy, the guys from the gang told me, um, all in matching red hats. They said, they said, uh, they said, we've never had anybody do anything like this before. That's the room. That's all from my personal money. All those toys. There was a line down, there's the line to come in. I didn't announce it at the time. I didn't put on social media. I'm I've never put on social media. This was private because I was doing it, not the church. There's look at all the toys for that whole neighborhood. And then, do you have the picture at the end of me with the guys? No, that's at the church. Do you have it there? You don't have the one with me there, do you? Well, I'll say that for a little bit. So then check this out. Yeah. So there's us talking there. They're just confused. Why are you doing this? I said, because it's Christmas. They said, uh, that's nice that your church would do this. I said, it's not my church, it's me. This is my money personally. I said, our church does all kinds of stuff, but this is coming out of my pocket. Well, then they looked me up on Instagram. They said, You have a jet? I said, I sure do. And uh they wanted to know about that because now they found out there's multiple ways to get a jet. You can get one living righteously, too. Can you say amen? Yeah, it's been great. Back when I used to charter planes and didn't have uh my own plane and would just rent them, those pilots were so confused. They'd What can we get you to drink? They'd keep alcohol on board. So we don't drink. And then we just have like a nice calm flight. And one pilot came back one time and said, You people don't do anything. I said, What do you mean? I thought he thought, like, I'm lazy. He said, You don't have any girls on here, you don't have any alcohol, no drugs. I said, Yeah. They said, Man, they're they're blown away. See, though they've tried to show you that there's only one way to prosper by the hand of the devil. You can prosper by the hand of the devil, but you won't live to spend the money, and you'll pay back a hundred dollars for every dollar the devil gives you. But there's another way to prosper. The hand of the Lord will lift you up out of the pit of poverty and set you on high above all the nations of the world. So I'm talking there. I wish I'd have known what gang was there because I wore the rival colors, but that was the only jacket I had. And then we were talking, they were interested. They said, Um, where do you go to church? They said, uh, we want to come. Interesting. How that made the the gospel so attractive that they invited themselves to church. I told them where I was coming. I said, but just so you know, this is not contingent upon you coming to church or anything. I said, I I just talked to them like preachers. You know, it was interesting. How because they got involved in the work of the Lord, they started like which I've done this to people a lot when I'm with sinners. I'll just start talking to them like they're preachers. And the one leader of the gang said, Um, this was great, but we should do it again. We can secure the stadium. I like that, secure. We can secure the stadium, and they said, if we get the word out and vouch for you, I guarantee you we could pack that stadium, and lots of people would be there for it. See, there's a lot a lot of times working with sinners beats working with with uh loser Christians. Not that you have to be a loser to be a Christian, but sadly many of them have chosen to be losers. Because I noticed those gang guys didn't say, I don't, we'd get the stadium, but I don't know if anyone would come. No, they had faith that it would pack out. Can you say amen? And so they came to church. And that first time they came to church, I didn't want to pounce on them, but I kept feeling when I walked by the one guy, the Lord kept giving me a word, and I called them out. I said, I'm not looking to spook you or anything, but I said, if you'd stand up and lift your hands. I said, God has always made you uh and given you a gift where people do what you say and follow you. And now God wants to pull on that gift that now people will follow you in the right direction. He started crying and laid hands on him. All those guys came to the altar that day. That's the picture they showed you. This is three weeks later at church, where they all came and gave their lives to Jesus Christ. Can you say amen? Yes. That's me giving the word. Praise the Lord. I that guy came up to me after and thanked me. I like getting people involved. By the way, whoever's watching Beckett Revival today, go find those guys. Since we moved buildings, I haven't seen them yet, and we're actually closer to them now than we were then. And I said to that guy, he said, I really like coming here. I said, Why don't you get involved? I said, Would you say that you would be able to spot if somebody was coming in here looking to do harm to the church people? He said, Absolutely. I said, then go see Jeff and join security. Can you say amen? People think if you're gonna get involved in church, you have to be like a certain way. No. If you like people, you can be a greeter. If you don't like people, you can be security. Can you say amen? And harm people for the Lord. And so that's that's how it started working. What opened that door? What opened that door was prosperity. That people saw a preacher that wasn't coming to take things, he was coming to give things. That's not supposed to be what one Christian does. That should be a force that's on planet earth. And so, what I want to tell you right now is if you're sitting here and you're like I was about 15 years ago, where I believed the word, I believed every scripture you were telling me, but brother, I don't know if I'm gonna be able to pay my rent in 11 days, and my car's not registered. How do I make the jump? I'm telling you, the Holy Ghost is gonna put a grace on you to make the jump. You won't feel like you're doing anything different. You're gonna open your heart to the word, and the seed of God's word is gonna make you from wondering if you can buy gifts for your children for Christmas to telling a whole town, come to where I'm at, I've got gifts for everybody. Say it out loud, I'm the head and not the tail. No wonder the Lord's giving me a release to preach this year because you guys are are are different. You you receive it. See, if you don't like prosperity, then you don't like that. If that doesn't interest you, then there's no point in us having any further communication. If you want to be somebody people keep in prayer your whole life, there's no point in having prosperity. But if you want to be the head and not the tail, if you want to be, I got sick about 10 or 15 years ago of uh, you know, after there's been a Democrat uh president, Republican president, Democrat president, Republican president, and you're still waiting on the next election for things to get fixed, you're kind of a moron. You have to at some point rise up and say, these people not only aid, they don't know what to do, they also don't have the power to do it because there's no strength in the flesh. So, God, I ask you, anoint me to be a solution to the world. Can you say amen? I've been in touch now, one with Pastor Terry that helped me, and then a guy that I know, I got in touch with him today. When I go to Venezuela, you think I'm just coming with my Bible? I'm looking to have shipping containers full of food for the Venezuelan people. I'm gonna tell you right now, um uh Muhammad's not doing that. Buddha's not doing that. You can tell by the size of Buddha, he keeps all the food. He doesn't feed anybody. He's a he's a little chubby for somebody that lectures so much on self-discipline. But Jesus is a sick person healer, he's a hungry man feeder, he's a widow protector, he's an orphan provider. Hallelujah! He's the head, you're the hands and feet, and he's looking for somebody to flow through. Can you say amen? Where's the feeding of the 5,000? John-ish? Where's the feeding of the 5,000? John 6? John 6. You know, really, if you don't know where that is in the Bible and you're the preacher that night, you probably should have your credentials yanked for two years. Thankfully, I'm in charge of the organization and I'll let it slide. John 6, 1. This is a powerful story. Now, if you would, just picture. Picture this is a real story. Because it is a real story. Picture there being 5,000 men, not counting women and children, that all need to eat, and you're in charge, and you don't have any food, and there's no Costco out in the desert to buy food. You know, when he asked the disciple, and the disciple said it would cost a year's salary to feed this group of people, that's even if there was a place to buy it. There's no market with enough food to feed 18,000 people out in the desert. And so it was impossible. But watch what Jesus did. John 6, 1. After this, Jesus crossed over to the far side of the Sea of Galilee, also known as the Sea of Tiberias. A huge crowd kept following him wherever he went because they saw his miraculous signs as he healed the sick. Then Jesus climbed a hill and sat down with his disciples around him. It was nearly time for the Jewish Passover celebration. Jesus saw a huge crowd of people coming to look for him. Turning to Philip, he said, Where can we buy bread to feed all these people? When you're like Jesus, you look for who to help, not for who can help you. There was a preacher, um, when I I won't say where I was, but I was at my church in Texas. If we could keep that between us, and if you're watching on national TV, if we can keep this story between us, that would be great. And so they said, This preacher wants to see you. And so I went to see him, and uh, I don't know him that well, but I, you know, I you know, I'm a Christian, nice to people. And he said, Hey, I just wanted to tell you, I'm getting ready to go to Nigeria, and uh it's gonna cost this much money. And uh, if you're looking for, I know you're a sower, if you're looking for a place to sow seed, I'm good soil. I nodded my head and said goodbye, and then I said to the usher, make sure he never comes back here again. Because if you're 55 years old, you know, a lot of preachers are just well-dressed beggars. But you know, I'm not one because I'm not even well-dressed tonight. I look like I should be changing your oil. But uh, I don't like that. Because uh a real man of God is like Jesus. Jesus wasn't seeing what kind of bread and fish he could get from the people, and it wasn't in the contract that if you went to go see Jesus preach out in the desert, that he was gonna feed you. He cared that people were hungry. What about Abraham, your father that bare thee? Let me see Isaiah 51.1. Isaiah 51. NLT. Listen to me, all who hope for deliverance. Everybody's looking for deliverance. This is what the Bible says. All who seek the Lord. How do you get deliverance? Consider the rock from which you were cut, the quarry from which you were mined. Where do you come from? Think about Abraham, your ancestor, and Sarah who bare thee. Abraham was only one man when I called him, but when I blessed him, there it is again. It would say he became a great nation. Verse 3. Yeah. And then it talks about all that God will do. So say this: I come from good stock. Say, I'm the seed of Abraham. That's right. That's who you identify with. When I read these Bible characters, I'm reading how I'm to act, what I'm to possess, and how I'm to behave. Can you say amen? They were not special men with glowing orbs of light over their head that look like are portrayed on stained glass windows. The Bible says that Elijah was a human just like me and you. Same kind of feelings, battled depression. They were people that believed God and attained unto his promise, and because they did it, you can do it today. It was saying, look for who to bless. It's a rare time that I go to a restaurant and don't pay for at least one other person's meal, if not a few. Because, like, I'll give you an example. As God grows you, you know, it's like buying all those people Christmas gifts. And then I took our church out in Texas because I don't get to be with them that much. I said, Everybody from the church that wants to come and eat, I'm gonna cater in barbecue from a place called Hutchinson's Barbecue that's ranked number one in the nation, and it is phenomenal. So great food. Everybody say great food. Yeah, I'm not gonna do what I grew up with in the Assemblies of God, where we have 400 people come and there's three medium pizzas with a pizza Nazi, slicing it even thinner until you have two pieces of dental floss with toppings on them. One per person, one per person. That's not how Jesus operated. So, you know, when I when I did that, it was like $48,000 to cater for the whole church, but it's money well spent, it's God's people, and they should be taken care of. So then, after you get used to paying bills like that, and your daughter wants to go to Chick-fil-A, how many of you were here when my daughter was here Monday night? She has the same food taste as an old prospector. She always says, Hey dad, can we go to Cracker Barrel? I says, sure. And all she orders is biscuits, extra biscuits, and jam and butter. And then eats biscuits. I feel like I'm I feel like my daughter is a 98-year-old man just eating biscuits. And so uh when I go there and all she's ordered is biscuits, and you know, I don't even know how Cracker Barrel stays in business. Get the bill, it's like $11. The food pantry charges more than that. So I got my bill, it was like $17, $18, something like that. How can I give a grown woman a $3.60 tip? That's 20%, but I don't care. I mean, you know, there's something that happens. This is a key to supernatural wealth. When you start treating others like you would like to be treated, I can remember specific people in my life when I worked different jobs or was in the ministry on low-level things, and they they blessed me or gave me like a hundred dollar handshake. And I thought, as good as that made me feel, now that I'm in that position, I want to be that everywhere I go. God's gonna make you a blessing everywhere you go from today. Can you say amen? So, like, I'll give you one example. I uh I start looking around the cracker barrel, and there's an old couple out to eat. The guy's got a Vietnam War hat on, and he's with his his wife. And so I thought, I could tell in my spirit, they go out to eat once a month, and this it's a big deal for them. So I said to the the server, let me have their check. And then I saw another old couple next to them. I thought, well, why not? There's another 20 bucks. I said, Let me have their check too. Well, that was two old couples, they were both white, and the only table that I hadn't paid for was a black couple, so now I just look like a giant racist. Give me all of the white couples, please. May the blacks fend for themselves. So I said, Well, since I don't look like let me have uh uh that third table too. And then I looked around the restaurant further and I said, you know what? Just give me the whole restaurant, give me everybody's bill, which isn't a big deal, you know. It's not that much. I think the whole thing was like $848. I know, but you know, that's like four people at a steakhouse. If you go to that, what's that good steakhouse you have in Louisville and uh Cincinnati? Jeff Ruby. If I lived close to a Jeff Ruby, I would never finish a 21-day fast. Around day two, I'd just be right in there eating, ruin my whole ministry. So it was like $840 for the whole restaurant. The funny thing was when I said it, I said, uh, just give me everybody's. The lady went like this and then just walked away. And then the manager came. She said, excuse me. One of our servers said that you wanted to take everybody's check in the whole restaurant. I said, Yeah. I said, I have an American Express uh platinum card. If you I don't expect you to take my word for it, you can pre-run it if you want. She said, uh, no, I believe you. We've just never had anybody do that before. I said, Yeah, I've never eaten here before. And then I told the server specifically, don't tell anybody. A, because I wasn't looking to have to talk to like 40 people. I just wanted to eat and leave. And then B, I didn't want to talk to anybody, which is the same as A. But the same thing happened as when Jesus said, don't tell anybody. Americans never do what they're told. So that first old couple comes up. Hey, they said that you you paid for our meal. I want to say thank you. Said you're welcome. Second couple comes over, same thing. Then, tell me the name of it again, repass. Yeah. I didn't know about this. I guess in in uh black culture they have a repass dinner. We didn't have that. In white culture, you just have triangle sandwiches that are gross. But they have a repass dinner, and that's what the family was having. Their son had just died. So I don't know how they found this out. But the whole family comes over, and the grandfather spoke for the whole family. And he said, We're having our repass dinner. I said, Uh, you have to forgive me, I don't know what that is. He said, Our son just passed, and this is the dinner that we have to celebrate his life, and they told me you paid for it. They tell me you're a pastor? I don't know, they found that out. I said, I am. He said, Well, I'm gonna be coming to your church, and I'm gonna bring my family to say thank you. I said, as long as you know that I told the server not to tell anyone who paid for it, and I didn't do this to try to get you to come to my church. He said, She told me that, which is why I'm coming. And that day, by the time I left Crackerborough, I had so much old lady foundation makeup on my jacket, I had to just throw it in the trash when I was done. You know what's interesting when you're a preacher? So many old ladies hug you that you leave every service with makeup and lipstick on your suit. I'm sure the dry cleaner's like this guy's messing around, covered in women's makeup, but it's all Elizabeth Taylor white diamonds if you smell it. Now, between those pictures and that story I'm telling you, that's what should interest you about prosperity. I was around two different kinds of preachers when I grew up. Some never had anything, we can't go out to eat and don't order appetizers. Then every once in a while you'd get around some. They'd take you to the nicest restaurant, they'd order the appetizers before anyone asked. They'd bless my father. My dad would leave those meetings happy, and somewhere around the age of eight or nine, I made up my mind. When I get older, I want to be somebody that when I leave the room, everybody's smiling because what they thought they couldn't do, God was able to use me to take them where they couldn't go. That, how many of you are interested in living that kind of life tonight? God'll take you there. If God can get it in your heart, he'll get it in your hand. Everybody say, I am a blessing. How are we gonna feed all these people? He was testing Philip, for he already knew what he was going to do. Philip replied, even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money. That's not what it says. Let me see, King James. John 6, 7, King James. Philip answered him, 200 penny worth of bread is not sufficient for him. He said, He didn't say we don't have the money. He said it would be a one translation says it would cost a small fortune to feed them, is all he was saying. So there's how you always find people that don't have prosperity. They're always worried about cost. I was with I was in um, I won't say the nation, but it was Barbados. The pastor's no longer in the ministry anyway. Uh, because he anyway, could have told you he was on his way out when I was there. So we were planning a crusade, and he said we were gonna get the stadium, but it cost a million dollars just to turn the lights on. I said, then we should have got seven million so we could flip them on and off a few times. Yeah. Because who I want you to say something with me that'll change your life. Say, who cares what it costs? Then say this it costs what it costs. You know, when you have a church in Pittsburgh and you have a church in Los Angeles, you realize there's different prices. A million-dollar home in Kentucky would be a $30 million home in California, and it's the same home. But it costs what it costs. And God knows what everything costs. So I refuse to be a pastor that says, I'd love a bigger building, but the real estate in this part of town is through the roof. It is to your little head. But I promise you that God's not up in heaven saying the real estate in that part of town is through the roof. God paves the streets with gold, he owns all the silver and all the gold. And if you'll open up your heart, he'll do exceeding and abundantly above all that you'd ask or think. Come on, do what you're already doing and give the Lord a big head clap if you receive it. Somebody shout hallelujah. Say out loud the Lord is good, and his mercy endures forever. It would cost a small fortune. How much money does it cost to fly that plane? Don't worry about it, you won't have one. How much does it cost? I'll tell you what it costs. Say with me. Faith is universal currency that works in every nation all the time. How many of you heard me, not in this meeting months ago, say when Venezuela comes open to the gospel, we're gonna be the first ones in. And then look how I believe for it. I'm not gonna be a preacher. How much does it cost? Is it safe? You'll never do anything. Cost then if you get the money, is it safe? Is it safe to go to Venezuela? Probably not. Is it safe to go to St. Louis? Is it safe to go to the White Castle in Louisville? No. Can tell you that from first hand experience. So if all you're gonna do is what's cheap and safe, you're not gonna do much for the Lord. But I'm not talking to those people tonight. I'm talking to a new generation of young people. I'm talking to people my age, I'm talking to old men and old women that are gonna get a fresh win from God and do what God said to do. Unafraid of the cost, unafraid of safety. Can you say amen? This is showing you how Jesus was, and then you can see how Abraham and Jesus is like. Same thing. Even if we worked for months, we wouldn't have enough money to feed them. Then Andrew Simon Peter's brother spoke up. There's a young boy with five barley loaves and two fish. But what good is that with this huge crowd? I wish I could meet that little boy, and I will meet him in heaven, I'm sure. I like that he had five loaves and two fish. First of all, what boy has food and shares it? I know I won enough. I just be like, man, thank God my. Mom packed me five loaves and two fish. While all these other people starved to death, I can eat till full. Then, secondly, not only was he willing to give what he had, he didn't give sight, he could have given Jesus two loaves and one fish. He gave him his five loaves and two fish, which by the way, you're gonna see here a principle. Everybody says supernatural supply. Yeah. See, now unbelieving people can't receive that. There was a guy from Yale Divinity School on the History Channel. He's he said in his effeminate voice and his bow tie, we must remember that the loaves of bread were much bigger back then. How much bigger? Was the kid carrying around a wonder bread truck? We're talking about 15,000 people, 5,000 men, not counting the women and children. And women and children are always more at any full gospel meeting. And so you're looking easy. 12,000, 15,000, 18,000, 20,000. You're gonna tell me that kid had five loaves that big? Even an Italian mom doesn't give you that much food. No? And then and then the way you know that guy's an idiot is because even when they they didn't say, thank God, this kid has five massive loaves that are the size of skyscrapers. He said, What good is this amount among so many people? But that boy not only gave all he had, there must have been something in him after hearing Jesus preach that thought, if I take it and give it to him, I bet in his hand it can become more than enough. And my friend, that is the miracle of seed faith giving. That what's in my hand is not enough. But if I combine it with Jesus' hand and make it a seed, it becomes more than enough. Because the Bible says everybody ate until full and there were 12 baskets left over. Among them, that means the boy that gave up his lunch. He ate until full and there were 12 baskets left over because God is El Shaddai, and Jesus is the expression of God the Father. He takes what isn't enough, he takes what isn't enough and makes it more than enough. Everybody in the sound of my voice that's dealing with not enough tonight. Your not enough becomes more than enough. Your five loaves of two fish that's only enough for you is gonna feed a multitude. Somebody say, prosperity is for me. I'll give you another one. I think I've told this before. Actually, Bob Rogers, who I was with today, was with me. Um he came to do our communion service, and my dad was there, and so me, Pastor Bob, my dad, and Camila went to um Del Fresco's steakhouse in downtown Pittsburgh. And so we're eating. And that that day when I laid on my bed before service, I was laying on top of my bed for about 20 minutes and uh closed my eyes, and when I woke up when my alarm went off, I felt the Lord speak to me. I want you to believe me, like you pay for Camilla to go to private school, I want you to pay for 10 more kids to go to private school. Okay. So I go out to eat after the service, and the server is a guy, and he tells us he just moved here from Washington, D.C. Because his wife, I think, relapsed on drugs or something, and so he moved back to take care of the girl. And so he said to Camila, because Camila was 10 back then. He goes, I got a daughter your age, I think. How old are you? She said, 10. He said, That's how old my daughter is. Where do you go to school? And he named two different public schools near there. She said, No, I go to, I won't say the name of the school, Christian Academy. And uh he goes, uh, oh, that's actually where I wanted to send my daughter. Well, you don't have to be Sherlock Holmes to know if he wanted to send his daughter there and didn't. It's because of the tuition. So I said, You want to send your daughter? You know, the Lord just told me to pay for 10 people. I didn't know the 10, so there's there's one nine to go. I said, You want to send your daughter to Christian school? He said, I do. I said, uh, I'll pay her tuition. And he did what the server at Cracker Barrel did. Not his head and walked away. And then about 25 seconds later, he came back to the day away. What did you say? I said, if you want to send your daughter to that school, I'll pay for her tuition. He said, Why? I said, Do you really want to know? He said, I do. I said, I was laying on my bed before church tonight, and uh the Lord spoke to me to pay for 10 kids to go to private school, and you've actually helped me out because now we only have to find nine more. He said, I never met it. He said, You're a pastor. I said, I am. Then he took out his waiter notepad and pencil. What's the name of your church? Wrote it down. He hugged me. Then he said, I'll see you at your church tomorrow. I told him the same thing. I said, I wasn't gonna tell you I was a pastor, and I wasn't gonna tell you how to church. I'm just being nice. This is not bait. Now there's nothing wrong with doing that, but I I don't know, I just wasn't. And he goes, uh, no, I know that, but I'm gonna be there tomorrow. Well, I got the mic at 10:35, turned and faced the crowd. We were in that um uh theater that we used to meet in when we couldn't get the soccer place, and as I turned to face the crowd in tier one of the seating, there's a guy going like this. Show me they kept his word. He was in God's house that day, lined up for prayer. That's not how I was trained to be as a minister. Ministers were well-dressed beggars, they traveled around, we need your help. I remember I was in one meeting, and the guy said, If I don't, if I don't have $900 by the end of this service, I'm not gonna be able to stay on radio. I remember thinking to myself, buddy, I'm seven. So if it's down to me, you better call the radio company and tell them the show's over. But I found out from the Bible. God doesn't, God doesn't have the people send you, God sends you to the people. The people are not your source. Everybody say, God is my source. Say it one more time: God is my source. See, if you start thinking the people are your we pastor in a poor area, none of that matters. When you see that God is your source, everybody say the windows of heaven are open. Yeah, and guess what? Democrats don't get a vote on the windows of heaven, Republicans can't goof up the windows of heaven. God opens the windows of heaven, and when God decides to bless you, what God blesses, nobody can curse. I tell every man and woman in the sound of my voice, everybody watching on television, you are blessed of the Most High God who made the heavens and the earth. From today, everything begins to turn around for your good. In Jesus' name. If you believe it, can you shout hallelujah? 12 purposes of God's lavish prosperity for his children. Ebbe Sayel Shadai. I was um, let me tell you this, and then I'll get to my points, and then I'll leave you alone for the night. Anybody getting anything out of this so far? Say it one more time. I'm the head. I'm not the tail. Say I'm the financial head. I'm not the financial tail. Let me tell you, it's fun to talk rich, like the Bible says. It's fun, it's fun when you go to start a church and a banker, uh, some businessman says, How are you gonna get financing? to look at and say, Who said I needed financing? Well, this is millions of dollars. I said, Are you under the impression I don't have millions of dollars? I didn't, it was just fun talking like that. People don't know what to do. You know, from talking like that and carrying yourself like that. I I it came back to me when one of the townships was suing our church that they said, we're gonna back off because we don't think we have enough money to beat him. They thought I have unlimited funding to take him to court and keep him in court. When a town thinks they're gonna run out of money before your ministry does, you're projecting something different than what Pentecostals did. But I found out in the Bible I'm not supposed to walk around like the third guy from the left on the evolution chart, hoping somebody blesses me today. I'm not looking to get blessed, I am blessed, and I'm not looking for somebody to bless me, I am a blessing. I have an overflowing cup that anointeth my head with oil, my cup runneth over. If you receive that tonight, clap your hands and shout one more time. Come on, clap your hands and shout a little bit. Let the redeemed of the Lord say so. Somebody shout hallelujah, hallelujah, praise God, hallelujah, and you know what? In the natural, I did need financing, but when you talk like that, I never needed financing, never got a loan. Our ministry's not debt-free, our ministry has never had any debt to be free from. I used to not have a credit score enough to qualify to get in debt. Why are you laughing at me, is it? Yeah, I got rejected for the Montel Williams prepaid visa card. I did. My credit score was like 13. So I used to have to learn to trust God for the money because I couldn't get, I couldn't even, I didn't even qualify for a credit card. I couldn't even rent cars. I had to use a debit card, have to talk my way and do it and all that. And then by the time I did get credit and could afford financing, I didn't need it because the same faith that got me to that point, I've just kept using it. Can you say amen? There's two ways. How much did Jesus charge for the bread and fish? I'm asking, how much did Jesus charge for the bread and fish? So if you're gonna be like Jesus and you're a youth pastor and you have a pizza party, instead of charging 11 kids six bucks a piece, have faith for the $66. Start where you're at, but change your mentality from trying to make sure everybody pays their share to saying, I'm gonna come with. What did Abraham do? The Bible says Abraham came to the edge of his tent and saw two men that he hadn't seen and said, Brothers, have you had anything to eat? And constrained them to come in as Sarah made them food. You're not looking for who will bless you, you're looking for who to bless. You're not trying to get blessed. The blessing of the Lord will pursue you and overtake you all the days of your life. I tell you something tonight. Your days of struggle are over, your days of closed doors are over. From today, the windows of heaven open over your life, doors begin to open, your family is going to another level. Can you say amen? They must say, feed people. My um, I'll tell you a crazy story about feeding people. My uh, I was coming home one day off the road, and um our driveway wasn't oh, thank you. Our our I guess I guess in Kentucky they don't wait till the offering. It's like, hey, shut up and let me give. So I came home off the road and the driveway um wasn't wide enough for our two vehicles, which I didn't care about. I was just driving and digging a trough with my one tire. But my wife contracted people to get the driveway widened. I didn't even know you could do that. So uh I came home and there's about 13 guys working on our driveway, construction workers. And I went in to play video games, and while I was playing video games, I felt the Lord speak to me. Buy them dinner, you know? Make it make it. See, I want to be where if people have met me, I want the next time they do an expose on me on Pittsburgh News about this evil pastor that moved into town and bought up all land. I want there to be a bunch of construction workers and waiters and people having repass dinners that point at the screen and go, that's the guy I was telling you about. So I went on Uber Eats and bought everybody a ribeye steak, medium rare. I didn't ask them how they want their steak, because if you don't like your steak, medium rare, me and you ain't friends. I took, I took my wife on our first date and uh she ordered, I took her to a steakhouse. They said, How would you like your steak? She said, Well done. I hold my hand up to the server, I said, You're gonna have to come down to at least medium, or this relationship will never work. I can't be with someone I don't respect. And so uh that's a true story. You have to take authority in your home, gotta win the little battles. So I ordered them all ribeye steaks and and uh fries and a baked potato, double carbs. And um, I got a and then I ordered about 30 Red Bull on Uber Eats. So they delivered it. I took it as about 800 bucks, but that's not a lot on Uber Eats. A cup of coffee's 110 bucks, so it wasn't a big deal. And then I just walked out to them and I said, break time, everybody. And I said, have a seat. Everybody sat down. I said, I hope you like steak. And passed it to everybody. And they said, for us? I said, Yeah. And they said, We never had anybody do this for us before. I just like using that line. I stole it from Brother Shambok. I said, Oh, you've never done work at my house before. And so they all sat down and ate their steaks. And that was that was during a time where you were wondering whether America was gonna make it or not. But I got hope for the nation because I saw a couple of the guys didn't even use their forks and knives. They folded the ribeye steak in half and ate it like a sandwich. And I thought, there's hope for this country. They haven't gotten everybody yet. I guarantee you those two aren't gay. So I mean I mean, I could be wrong, but it's just a guess. Not important. Well, check this out. Everybody say generosity pays off. I didn't know who they were, and I didn't know who the construction company was. My wife hired them, and she wasn't home. Well, their their owner of that company found out about it. And his brother is the one who built out our church in Pittsburgh. And when he found out that I'm the pastor that did that for his brother's construction crew, that guy told every person that worked at our church, they would quote him, their price. And he'd say, You're gonna have to come down lower than that. They'd say, Well, that's only our materials costs, it's not even labor. He'd say, Not my problem. You're gonna have to take a loss on this one, or I won't use you for any of my future projects on the buildings that I build. And instead of building that church out for $250 a square foot, that would have been about $9 million. We build it out for $4 million at $68 a square foot, which is like 1991 pricing, because seed produces harvest. Can you say amen? When you decide to be a giver, those seeds go into your future, and the things you want to be able to do at all, you'll be able to do with ease. I'm looking at people tonight that things that have never been done in your family before, you're gonna be the first to do them. You're gonna be the first to pay cash for a car, you're gonna be the first to pay cash for a house, you're gonna be the first one. Every barrier that nobody's ever broken, you're gonna break that barrier. Every line that nobody's ever crossed, you're gonna cross that line. In Jesus' name. So, they say, I'm gonna do big things. So I told you two nights ago when that guy said we're planning a small outreach. I said, Then don't be a part of my ministry group. Who planned something small for the Lord? If it's gonna be small, let it be because of failure, not because you planned it to be a failure. And so um, I had a door open up to do our first crusade in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and I realized that it was training for all these other things. And so I announced that we're gonna feed everybody, we're gonna have groceries for everybody. Well, the first night I don't think anybody believed me, so they didn't stay for it. But then when word got out, I was there multiple nights, then the next night we had about 800 boxes of food left, and we had about, I can't remember how many people in line, 1100 people. And like I told you in Houston, if you tell everybody in Philadelphia, Philadelphia is where they at Christmas time at the Eagles game threw batteries at Santa Claus till he had to leave the field and was bleeding. They beat up Santa Claus. I'm not even Santa Claus, I'm just a guy. Yeah, they boo everybody in Philadelphia, take a swing at anybody. And so uh, I thought I was in Kentucky. Why are you guys getting hurt on behalf of Philadelphia people? It's a fact. So I thought, man, if we run out of food, somebody's gonna die. And apparently the people doing the food knew it, and I preached that night. See, the funny thing is when you preach prosperity, because some people that preach prosperity, and this was going on in Paul's day, he said some people preach this just as a way to get rich. But what didn't people say, well, you can't you can't preach that on the mission field. Sure you can. I was in the second poorest, second most violent neighborhood in the United States in nice town, Philadelphia, and I preached that night on Else Should Die. And now God will, I preached on healing the night before. I said the same way God will heal your body. If you're if you're hurting financially and you can't provide for your children, and life is a struggle, the same way God will take cancer out of your body, God has the power to multiply the cruise of oil and the jar of meal, where what's enough for one meal can be can feed you for three and a half years. Can you say amen? And they believed it. So not only did I preach it, I now think of this, and this is gonna, I'm getting ahead of myself. But then in Philadelphia, you have people come up to you after and say, we've never had anybody do this for us our whole lives, and then you can preach. I heard that you've never had anybody do this for your whole lives, and they all said, Amen. I said, Let me ask you a question. How can the government that takes sales tax, gas tax, federal grants, property tax, state tax, all kinds of grants, and they've never given you a box of groceries? How can a 34-year-old come and with his own money get you organic? I didn't give him crap food. I gave them food I'd give my family. It wasn't damaged boxes of Pringles from 1992 and stale lunchable salami that you could break a window with. I said, How can a 34-year-old come and do that and the government's never done that? And it starts to get people to realize government is not my source. There's a God that I can call to and He'll answer me. Can you say amen? This is what we were able to do by faith at 34 years old. I want you to see what happened. Now, when it says that the boxes multiplied, that sounds like charismatic nut job talk that if I heard somebody tell me that, I wouldn't believe them. But when the guy that was in charge of distributing the boxes runs an accounting firm and works for the IRS, and he comes to you crying, saying, I'm telling you, there weren't enough boxes, and we prayed. You pray differently when you know you're gonna die. So, Lord, don't let these boxes run out. And every time we'd go reach for the second row, the second row never dissipated. Then we had one box left, handed it to the last person, and when we looked, there was one more box because he's the God of more than enough. Watch the God that you serve. Listen now, Allah can't do this, Muhammad can't do it, Buddha can't do it, Shiva can't do it, but Jesus did it. Go ahead.
SPEAKER_03You understand what I'm saying? You know, I'm not gonna just be here just to wander around and take advantage of the facilities. I actually want to see what's going on and really see what you guys are talking about. So maybe I can go on and spread it myself.
SPEAKER_05And we need it for the community, you know what I mean? Because the community needs to come together, you know, get together, have a nice time.
SPEAKER_00It was not my idea to come, it was God's idea to come. And so I stand on the stage to let you know the men have it in their minds and hearts to keep you poor. God's made up his mind that if you come to him, no devil's gonna keep you poor. You will be the head and not the tail above and not beneath. Blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when you come and when you go. Come on, if you know that the yoke of poverty is broken tonight, clap those hands and shout unto the Most High God. I don't mean a religious hand clap, not like in a golf course. Give a wild hand clap to the King of Kings. That's better. Look at the line for food. Should there be people, anybody in America that needs food? So, who's gonna do something about it? You wanna post about it on Facebook? Posted enough of it. Who said I'm gonna do something? I believe you. Yeah, that's it. And I'm telling you, you'll be stung if you just say, like, make up your mind and say what she said. How God goes, oh, you will, and you'll watch. Go to Washington DC and meet with the people in the Senate and House. And you'll start getting the belief that if they made it today, I can do something for God. The vast majority of them are not impressive people. They're under all kinds of duress and stretched out, and I don't know if we're gonna. I'm telling you, faith has has carries a mighty power to it. I'm 34 that I have no organization backing me. I had no money to do any of that. That event cost my year before that's budget. And you know, let me tell you, I should share this. When that opportunity opened up in April to do it in August. Interesting. Same timeline as Venezuela. I thought I don't have enough money to do that. It's gonna be $137,000. Actually, it was supposed to be $80,000, and they the city of Philadelphia added an extra $50,000 because they weren't gonna let me have the park. And then when I threatened to sue them, they changed the price of the park from $7,200 to $48,000. $40,000 to use the park, a public park, a little city park, not a stadium. $40,000 and an $8,000 cleaning fee. And that park hadn't been cleaned since William Penn got the land grant from Queen Mary or whatever the heck. But you know what I said? See, one of the things that'll help you in prosperity is to be a little bit nuts. When that guy said, fine, stay a stay uh Philadelphia City official. You can have the park, but the price changes. $48,000. I knew what he wanted me to do. We're a charge. How am I supposed to get that? I said, Would you like that in gold, cash, or diamonds? I didn't have any of the three, so it didn't make any difference to me. His eyebrows went on and he snorted and walked away. And I walked outside and I said to God out loud, I said, Father, you heard how that guy talks. He thinks you're broke, but I know otherwise. Thank you that it's done. And the money started coming from everywhere because God is looking for somebody that'll believe him. Somebody shout, I believe. Go ahead. When you call on Jesus tonight, that yoke of poverty, that yoke of not having enough food, that yoke of how am I gonna buy clothes for my children, Jesus will take that yoke and become your el Shaddai, the God of more than enough. If you believe it, take ten more seconds. Give a mighty hand clap to God. In the name of Jesus. I'm gonna tell you something. When people don't preach prosperity, they've lost touch with poor people. And if you're not careful, like me, I'm not even in airports anymore. I'm at a private airport, I'm on my own plane. The barber comes to my church to cut my hair. I'm only around well-to-do people, basically, unless but I make a point to go to barbershops on the road and sit and listen to people talk about their air conditioner when out on their car and their kid has medical bills that they can't pay. When you'd preach against prosperity, you don't know how people are living. You don't understand there's people that don't know how to feed. You hear me preaching there. I'm not going soft. Now I know, I know the Bible says a lot about blessing, and it seems like where is this blessing, Lord? No! Would you say I'm preaching harder there here? There. On a fast. If I tried to put that shirt on today, three buttons would pop off and blow through your chest. Active, like active bullet wounds. And other people saying that no. Poor people need prosperity, sick people need healing. God wants to help people in every area of life, and He's helping you tonight. Continue. Jesus Christ. That was the first crusade I ever did that I paid with forth my own money. Do you have any other miracles or healings from there? Do you have the guy that was bound by violence with the teardrop tattoo that said he just felt it leave his heart? Anyone you can find. This is what God, so God blessed the people. They must say, I'm a blessing. Let me tell you something, food matters. The only miracle Jesus did when the people went to take him by force to make him their king was when he fed them with bread and fish. People like to eat. Can you say amen? You got one or no? You can say no. If you can find one from Philadelphia, that'd be good. To become twelve purposes, everybody say God's lavish prosperity. Let me tell you why I'm preaching this tonight. Because I'm getting tired of being criticized for prosperity, and they don't even know, they don't, I haven't even told them what prosperity is. There's some guy who wrote, you're wearing a Gucci vest. I said, if you look behind me, there's a $10 million jet, moron. So if you want to get mad, at least get mad properly. So I want to preach, I don't want to preach the Gucci vest prosperity. I want to preach the windows of heaven are open, pouring out a blessing. Do you have the song It's my season to be blessed? Somebody say it's my season to be blessed. I'm telling you, I feel the gift of faith in this service for God to take you from a normal American to a nation within a nation. Let me tell you something while they find this song. I uh, if you want to stay broke and you want to stay struggling, confess broken and struggling. I'm in a season of attack. I'm gonna I'm in a drag season, I'm in a season where God's separating me out. Yeah, you've been saying that for nine years. Why don't you change your confession? Somebody say it's my season to be blessed. The windows of heaven are open over my life. Say this surely. Goodness and mercy will follow me every day of my life. Now lift your hands and begin to thank God out of your mouth. Come on, thank you. Things are turning now. The battle is not yours. Go ahead with the testimony. This is in the hood. And I want to tell you, Jesus not only came to destroy him, he came to destroy everything that brings death and everything that accompanies death.
SPEAKER_04I actually came here Monday and uh I was moved by the word. And when I had come here Monday, it just it just hit home. And I just went with the flow. What about the lady with the spikes on her hat after this?
SPEAKER_00Say this out loud, dear Heavenly Father. Oh, you sound good. I've come forward tonight. Pause it. That's what $137,000 bought. Not nine people getting saved, 2,258 people getting saved. Yeah, it's time to do big things. Big things! Big things! Jesus is coming soon! Big things! Continue. Oh, you sound good. I've come forward tonight to give you my life. Listen, let him pray. I'm sorry for my sins. I take responsibility for everything I've done wrong. And I ask you to forgive me. And I ask you not only to forgive me, cleanse my heart. Cleanse my mind. In Jesus' name.
SPEAKER_04How I used to think, I used to think violent. I mean, I was angry, I was always angry, but now it's like I have some type of peace. This last week. Pause it. This Sunday.
SPEAKER_00Pause. You know what you get those tattoos for, right? Not being employee of the month at Jimmy John's. Killer. Learn how he talks after one night here in the Bible? My mind was corrupted. I had a corrupted mind. I needed Jesus to forgive me. All that left away. God needs somebody to go and preach the gospel in every place the devil thinks he owns. Go preach. And if a cop arrests you, call me. I'll get you a lawyer to the police department's named after you. This ain't England. This ain't Canada. You can still preach the gospel anywhere you want, anytime you want. I'll tell you another thing. Wow, my blood pressure's rising. I got a whole collection of videos that I'm ready to take to court. I'm looking forward to the time they try to shut me down preaching somewhere because I'm done getting permits. Has Antifa gotten any permits to block traffic? No. So if they don't have to have them, don't do unequal application of the law, or we're gonna rumble in court, my friend. I'm not gonna let the devil dictate this last hour of time. This is our time. Go ahead with this awesome testimony.
SPEAKER_04It's the most I smile since I've been around.
SPEAKER_00When you don't have any hope, you feel like you're gonna die. There's no reason to live. Why are the prisons full? Because what do you care if you go to prison? If your life outside of prison is hopeless, there's no way out. But I want to tell you today, Jesus not only takes away hopelessness, I want to tell you how he does it. The Bible says God makes a way where there is no way. God is a master. See that lady spinning around? What does one prayer at an altar really do? No what? You feel the burden of sin lifted. You should be glad you have called me tonight, not wild man me. What is one prayer? Well, I had a preacher tell me that. You know, the devil always never wants to leave a service happy. I had a minister come up to me after 700 people came to the altar in Philly to give their life to the Lord. But really, what does one prayer at an altar do? I said, if you're praying, nothing. But I'm not you. Can you say amen? He would say, I got faith. I would say, my prayers work. Yeah. Devil always try to get you. Who do you think you are? You really think you're something, don't you? I sure do. Just tell him, confront that spirit. You think you're somebody. I am somebody. Christ lives in me. The hope of glory. I was I was bound and lost in sin. But Jesus not only took my sin away, he came to live on the inside of me, and he gave me his power to be a light in a dark world. Continue. And taking those situations where there is no way, you may have no way out. But when you call on God tonight, God will make a way where there is no way. Jesus is alive and he lives forevermore. And when you call on him tonight, you'll never be the same. Man, I feel good to feel like running to Venezuela. It was so awesome because we stayed there uh Sunday night through Friday night, Sunday night through Thursday night. And by Tuesday night, because everybody had to stand, people started bringing their couches and chairs out from their living rooms and putting them on the field. Looked like Sanford and someone's having a yard sale. It was awesome. It was awesome. Great people right there. Hallelujah. I'm just getting warmed up. The devil is gonna have the worst second half of a year he's ever had in America. He's gonna get bulldozed out of this country. The church is rising up in strength to do the greatest work. We are the anti church. God trusted you for this time. God anointed you for this time. Continue. Addiction. Matthew 15. My daughter is grievously vexed. Nobody talks like that anymore. Severely tormented by an evil spirit. Whether it's crack, whether it's heroin, whether it's percocet and alcohol, whether it's whatever drug it is, it starts out fun, but the fun doesn't last long.
SPEAKER_02The first day I came, it was Sunday. I didn't stay for half a day. But I was on drugs. I was on crack, I was smoking cigarettes. I was drinking alcohol. I was depressed. I was, you know what I mean? I was depressed. Everything. I can't have a day without using a drugs. Not one day.
SPEAKER_00Sin is pleasurable after a season.
SPEAKER_02But the wages thereof, the end thereof, is when I left here that first that Sunday, the next day, I didn't want to drink. My sister went to the deli, she bought a beer. And I was like, I just didn't want any drugs, I didn't want any beer, I didn't want anything. I bought a big then I came in here and I stayed for the whole thing the second day.
SPEAKER_00It's sin that's behind death. That's why no mayor can stop it. That's why no new city councilman can stop it. The only hope for America is to turn their back on sin. Give their burden of sin to Jesus and allow him to give you his new life.
SPEAKER_02And that I went to the altar that day. And I was still smoking the cigarettes. But after the altar, I didn't want any more cigarettes. And since then, I haven't had a taste for drugs, I haven't had a taste for alcohol, I haven't had a taste for a cigarette all day. I mean, not me. I have every day I smoke cigarettes. You know what I'm saying? Every day I go out and I use.
SPEAKER_00See the two sons? They get a new mom. There's no work like the work of the gospel. Jesus can do everything that's needed by himself. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Continue.
SPEAKER_02You know what I mean? To the point of no return. I haven't had a crazy life, no food, no depression, no nothing. I get up every morning. This morning I got up and I just was alive.
SPEAKER_00Every crack addict in the sound of my voice, every drug addict in the sound of my voice, whatever the drug, whatever the pill, I tell you, when the blood of Jesus makes contact with your body tonight, God's gonna give you a new bloodstream. And in that bloodstream, there'll be no craving for drugs, just righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Ghost. If you believe it with me, clap those hands and shout with the voice of triumph. No addicts are leaving this field. Hold me free, men and women of God. Shout I'm free! Shout I'm free.
SPEAKER_02Because I was the one who kept on walking around, doing my thing.
SPEAKER_00Keep going.
SPEAKER_02So I said I wasn't gonna go back till I got myself together. You know what I mean? So it was like he brought this to me, you know, and and I came and and I was delivered.
SPEAKER_00Addiction. My daughter's tormented, but Jesus spoke the word. Everybody say, speak the word. Lift your hands one more time. I speak the word as his servant. Every spirit that torments men and women with addiction, I serve notice on God. So powerful. The power of the word of God to have 2,000 people in that neighborhood and be able to take authority over unclean spirits and then start leaving people. No matter how bad things look in a family, in a city, in a country, there's one prayer to pray that'll blow the devil's rear end straight out of that place. And we're doing it now in Jesus' name. Continue. Lift your hands one more time. I speak the word as his servant. Every spirit that torments men and women with addiction, I serve notice on you now. Your grip on any person on this field ends tonight, and they are set free now by the precious blood of the burden bearer, Jesus Christ. If you're thankful for that and believe it, one more time, clap those hands under God and let him know you believe. Yeah, you know what I preached? I preached a different message about Jesus every night. Jesus the Savior, Jesus the healer, Jesus the burden bearer, Jesus the good shepherd, Jesus the soon-coming king. Coming back again every night. If I be lifted up, I'll draw a man unto me. Praise God. That's what prosperity is. Prosperity is the ability when they tell you, you know what this park's gonna be $48,000. Here it is. The devil can't control you with money. Can't tell you what you're gonna do with money, which is how the devil controls. Let me see Luke chapter 4, verses 1 to 5. Then Jesus, full of the Holy Spirit, returned from the Jordan River. He was led by the Spirit in the wilderness. Where he was tempted by the devil for 40 days. Jesus ate nothing all that time and became very hungry. Then the devil said to him, If you are the Son of God, tell this stone to become a loaf of bread. Jesus told him, No, the scriptures say people don't live by bread alone. Then the devil took him up and revealed to him all the wealth and kingdoms of the world in a moment of time. Six. I will give you the glory of these kingdoms and authority over them, the devil said, because they're mine to give to anyone I please. A true statement at the time. I will give it all to you if you worship me, which is why you find out all these music musicians and Hollywood people and government people and cartels. When we took out that uh cartel leader and Mattamoros, they found altars all through their thing with saints' pictures up and blood sacrifice. Because there is a way to get rich outside of God by worshiping the devil. In fact, you're gonna pick one. You're either gonna be a middle nobody, or you're gonna be a demonized person, or by the power of the Holy Ghost, you can ascend unto the wealth and riches of heaven and do it that way. And I made my choice. I said, I made my choice. Then Jesus replied, the scriptures say you must worship the Lord your God only and serve only Him. Let me see Luke chapter 8. Sorry. 2 Corinthians chapter 8, verses 1 through 9. Now I want you to know, dear brothers and sisters, what God and His kindness has done through the churches in Macedonia. They are being tested by many troubles, and they're very poor, but they're also filled with abundant joy, which is overflowed in rich generosity. For I can testify that they gave not only what they could afford, but far more. And they did it of their own free will. They begged us again and again for the privilege of sharing in the gift. For the believers in Jerusalem. They even did more than what we had hoped. For their first action was to give themselves to the Lord and to us, just as God wanted them to do. So we've urged Titus, who encouraged your giving in the first place, to return. I like our church because they don't even talk about the offering. Then they're unscriptural. In the New Testament church, they encourage people to give out of the Bible, not pressure them, and we'll say encourage them. Who encouraged your giving in the first place to return to you and encourage you to finish this ministry? And we say ministry of giving. Continue. Since you excel in so many ways, like it's written to Pentecostals, your faith, gifted speakers, knowledge, enthusiasm, and love. In other words, you got all that, but you don't have any money. But I want you to excel also in this gracious act of giving. I am not commanding you to do this, but I'm testing how genuine your love is by comparing it with the eagerness of the other churches. Nine. I've already priced. If the penguins go to move out of PPG Paint's arena and our churches hit that size where we require an auditorium like that, I've already looked into what it would be to acquire it and all that and done the math. And I'm getting my faith for it. I may I'm not gonna do small things. Churches will be the biggest places before Jesus comes back. The house of the Lord shall be elevated above all other hills, and all nations will flow into it. You're not gonna watch it happen, you're gonna be a part of it happening. In Jesus' name. Where did this group come from? I like you. You have great faith. Yeah. Sorry to make you uncomfortable, but I stand by what I said. You're gonna do big things for God. You're gonna pay for other people's colleges. You're gonna do all kinds of things. End up with a college named after you. John Wesley said, I became rich unawares, following God's plan for my life. He just realized I'm rich. Never tried. Prosperity is not chasing after money. Prosperity is putting God's kingdom first and going after it with all your heart. And all those other things are added unto you. You know the generous grace of our Lord Jesus Christ, that though he was rich, yet for your sakes he became poor, so that by his poverty he could meet your needs. No? So that by his poverty he could what? Oh, you mumbled it. What? I think you're rich. Let me see 2 Corinthians 9, 8 in the Amplified Classic. And God is able to make all grace, every favor. My daughter's Bible teacher says only in heaven. What does it specifically say there? What kind of blessing? Earthly blessing. You can't do a crusade in Philadelphia with heavenly blessings. Earthly blessing. Come to you in abundance so that you may always and under all circumstances and whatever the need be self-sufficient. Possessing enough to require no aid or support. And furnished how? Too much. Too much bread. Everybody until full. Too much bread. Too much fish. Furnished in abundance for every good work and charitable donation. Nine. As it is written, the benevolent person scatters abroad. He gives to the poor. His deeds of justice and goodness and kindness and benevolence will go on and endure forever. Ten. And God, who provides seed for the sower. That's a powerful scripture. If you become a sower, God will always make sure you have plenty of money to sow. That's why Brother Shambok used to do this thing when people would say, I would love to give, but I don't have any money. He'd go like this.
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SPEAKER_00And they go, I don't understand. He'd say, I wouldn't say that if I were you, because you're letting everybody know you're not a giver. Because God said, if you're a sower, you'll always have money to sow. Yeah, I know it hurts, but that's what the Bible says. He'll always provide seed to the sower. Not seed to people that want to sow, seed to the sower. And increase the fruits of your righteousness, which manifests itself in act of goodness, kindness, and charity. 11. Thus you will be enriched in how many things? And in how many ways? So that you can be generous. You're like a money bum looking for a place to explode. Can you say amen? It's fun being rich. It's fun taking that little divider on the grocery store thing and moving it where the person put it and scoop theirs in with yours. They go, hey, that's mine. Say it can still be yours. I'm just paying for it. Hallelujah. It starts getting fun. It starts getting fun to be to lift people's burdens, to let God use you to destroy the yoke of poverty, to take hardness out of life. That's what you're gonna do from tonight in the name of Jesus Christ. And your generosity, as it is, administered by us, will bring forth thanksgiving unto God. How do you get there? Turn to Luke chapter 5. I've got 12 points. I'm gonna post them on my Twitter. Luke 5. How do you get there? How do you get from broke to blessed? Luke 5. One day as Jesus was preaching on the shore of the Sea of Galilee. Sorry for the cough. I went on this bird watching cruise in Chile ever since I came back. The doctor said, I'm more virus than host. I don't know what that means. He noticed two empty boats at the water's edge, for the fishermen had left them and were washing their nets. Stepping into one of the boats, Jesus asked Simon, its owner, to push it out into the water. So he sat in the boat and talked the crowds from there. When he had finished speaking, he said to Simon, Now go out where it is deeper and let down your nets to catch some fish. Simon gave Jesus his boat. Jesus never said thank you. You won't find anywhere in the Bible where God told anybody thank you. He just blessed people. Thanks for the boat. Now get back in it and go do what you were doing before you let me get involved in it. And in one cast of your net, you're gonna do more than what you did that whole month of fishing. I always respected how Jesus, when Peter later in Mark chapter 10 said, Master, we've left everything to follow you. If I was Jesus, I went, Yeah, how was your fishing business doing again? Remind me. Then in John 22, after Jesus rose from the dead, Peter's fishing. He still doesn't, he was like a terrible fisherman. Master Simon replied, We worked hard all last night and didn't catch a thing. But if you say so, I'll let the nets down again. And this time their nets were so full of fish, they began to tear. A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking. Look at that. A shout for help brought their partners in the other boat, and soon both boats were filled with fish and on the verge of sinking. Four things that take you from broke to heaven too much. Number one, see it in the Bible. Don't just hear it, see it. See yourself as the seed of Abraham. See that you don't belong poor. You can talk people out of what they've heard, but you can't talk people out of what they've seen. Can you say amen? What do I mean by that? I've got people, anybody, any pastor can tell you this. You know, Jonathan, I've been battling sickness, and I keep, I keep saying, you know, you know how you said, um, yeah, as long as it's what I said, then you're gonna battle it. When it becomes the word of God to you, and nobody can move you from it, the grass withers and the flower fades, but the word of our God stands forever. I look back and I wonder if this wasn't a test when I was 25. I was preaching in upstate New York and I was preaching. I like, I was right when I was getting this revelation, still had nothing. And um, I talked about a good man leaves an inheritance to his children's children, the Bible says. I talked about what that means. That you're talking about tens of millions of dollars. If it's gonna be enough to leave to your children after taxes, them spend it and leave it to their grandchildren. Pastor, somebody's got a pastor came up to me after, he was a presbyter, he was angry. He said, The way you preach tonight, you make it sound like God wants everybody to be a millionaire. And back then, I said, Well, think about it, Pastor So-and-so. I said, How much is a house in your town? Well, you know, I started breaking down. I said, A million? You're talking like it's 1870. You know, I was looking when I was in Utah, Brigham Young, that took the Mormons out there, he was the richest man in the state of Utah and one of the richest men in the country. He had $600,000. That was the richest in the state, because $600,000 back then, a steak dinner with wine cost nine bucks for a couple. Yeah. I don't know if you're amending the wine or the steak, but I'll take your word for it. But that's not now. So to have this idea that a million is some lofty number that you can never hit, you're gonna hit it. I said, you're gonna hit it. You're gonna hit it. Yeah. There'll be a day, if you follow the plan of God for your life, where a million will be your tithe. And it'll happen sooner than you think. Number one, see it. Number two, sow with that destination in mind. I'm not giving some of my money away to the less fortunate. I'm taking what's not enough. I'm taking my five loaves and two fishes, putting it in the master's hand for the work of the Lord, knowing it's gonna produce multiple baskets left over. It's not enough. If you've watched me, how many of you ever watched me on YouTube before? Did you see while we were building those churches? How many churches I went to and said, How much is it to complete your children's ministry? Dean Shropshire in uh New Mexico. I said, How much is the next step for your church that you're planning? He said, about a million and a half. I didn't have a million and a half, I had about 700,000. I said, I'll pay the million and a half over the next, I can't remember whether I did 18 months or three years, or whatever it is, like 41,000 a month. That's a lot. You know what you're supposed to do when you are building something is call ministries that you used to support and tell them we're gonna have to cut back because we're doing something. But that's how you slit your own throat. You never go backwards giving. The more you give, the more you receive. Your gift comes back to you. It's a spiritual law. Pressed down, shaken together, and running over to make room for more. I will cause men to give liberally into your bosom. So for it. So with a destination in mind. Lord, I believe you're having me do this. I don't have enough to feed a multitude, but I do have five loaves and two fish, and I'm gonna take what isn't enough, put it in the master's hand, and watch it become more than enough. So for it. So liberally. Little seeds produce little dinky harvests. If you feel it leave your hand, you'll feel what comes back to your life. Those that sow in tears reap with shouts of joy. I grew up largely in assemblies of God churches and they were broke. And if you went back to their back missions wall, anybody grew up in a Pentecostal church that had it had a missions wall with all the missionaries they supported? What was the average amount they supported a missionary every month? $20. Anybody else? Ten. Then they wonder why. You know, I I know Jonathan preaches that, but I've never seen that. Yeah, because you give little dinky seeds. The missionary lost money going to Western Union to pick up your money. He burned more gas in his motorcycle than what you paid him. The church I went to in Bangor, Maine, the ladies' ministry used to send their used tea bags to the to the ladies overseas. Yeah. You're believing for breakthrough, giving people your trash? We give. Yeah, you give, and it makes God angry. You can give offerings that tick God off. Ask Cain. Can you say amen? And some people give all the time, but they've never followed the instruction of the Bible, which is to ask the Holy Ghost what you're to give and sow it. Can you say amen? Everybody say, see it. Everybody say, sow for it. What are you believing God to do for you? Elijah never talked to the widow about how his brook dried up, and he never talked to her about what he was going to do in chapter 18 and call fire down from heaven. He talked to her about her. If you'll give the cruise of oil and jar of meal, will not fail until the rain falls again. So I'm asking you, what maybe nobody's ever asked you. What are you believing God to do for you? What do you not have enough money for in the natural? But you understand that if you sow, you can put a name on that seed and reap it. Number three, associate with it. I want to ask you a question. This is a powerful revelation. Jesus told Peter to launch his boat out and let his net down. And soon a cry for help came, and his partners in other boats came over, and soon their boats were full of fish. Did any of those guys get a word from the Lord? No. But they were associated with somebody that had prosperity. You hang around sickness, you get sickness. You hang around ministries that attack wealth, you attract lack. Attack wealth, attract lack. Attack lack? That's what we were doing in Philadelphia. We were attacking lack. We were telling the devil, you're not going to keep these people poor. We're here to do something about it. And when you attack lack, you attract wealth. I see wealth being loaded into your family today.
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SPEAKER_00So who you associate with matters. I was uh out to eat with a bunch of pastors when I was in Utah. And one of them had just started a church in Utah, and they said, Every pastor we've talked to has told us how hard it's gonna be to start a church here. And you know how how expensive it is. You hang around people like that, you're gonna have a hard time. Do you want to hear something very interesting? Because I'm gonna tell you whether you want to hear it or not. The first time I met Jesse DuPlanis in 2022. He said, Would you like to see my plane? I said, Sure. I went on the plane with him and I was there for about two minutes. There was a Falcon 900. And he said, God will give you a plane like this. I was this close to blurting out. Not me. I'm having trouble keeping my car registered. I've got no way to have enough money to get one of these. I don't even have a church building yet. No, I just got a church building. But I had enough sense to just say, everybody say, Praise the Lord. When somebody gives you a word that sounds like it's too big for you to ever do, just say praise the Lord, because you didn't disagree, but you also didn't agree to anything either. Can you say amen? You can also do that when people invite you over for dinner and you don't want to go. I'd love to have you for dinner. Praise the Lord. So I had enough sense when he said, God's gonna give you a plane like this. I said, Praise the Lord. And then it was uh three years after that. First, a guy gave me a Falcon 50. Then when we started the church in Los Angeles, he upgraded it to a Falcon 900. And not only did God give me a plane like it, he gave me the exact same jet within two and a half years of when he spoke that word. I could have just as easily gone to some evangelist meetings and said, How many? in that fake cry voice that they teach you at Pentecostal Bible School, how many of you know? It's not all easy, I'll be. I'm sorry, sir. Are you going through menopause? I've never heard a man speak like that before. Do you talk like that anywhere else? Welcome to Taco Bell. Can I take your order? Oh have the Chalupa Supreme. I could have made a choice to hang around those guys. Ministries high. Do you want to say? My name. And I'd have got nothing. But I decided to hang around the boats that have fish in them. Not the boats that talk about how hard it is to fish. And when you attach yourself to people that carry overflow, that overflow starts getting on you. Their vocabulary starts getting in you. Their revelation starts getting in you. When you can't be around them physically, pop them on YouTube and let them preach into your spirit. Quit hanging around failures and start gravitating to success and victory. Somebody say, associate with it. And number four, confess it. Everybody say, confess it. Death and life is in the power of the. I don't want to hear about the devil's attacking. Devil can't do anything about your confession. The devil personally dealt with Jesus. Only five people tops in the Bible ever dealt with Satan directly. So, for all the Christians and the charismatics that deal with the devil every Tuesday, you're a special person. Devil's been attacking. You hey, get another demon to deal with Iran in that situation. I gotta go attack Cindy. But Jesus actually dealt with Satan in person. Did he pray in speed tongues? Did he wave any banners? Did he call intercessors? What did he do? Everybody say, it is written. Did the devil argue with him or change the subject? It is written. Change the subject. It is written. Left him alone. Devil has no answer for you when you decide to speak the word of God. I want to tell you this, and if you've missed everything I've said all night, you need to get your hearing checked. But don't miss this. I've told this before. If you watch me all the time, sorry you have to hear it again. But this really stood out to me. This guy, it popped up in my YouTube algorithm. I was driving to church. I had about like a 40-minute drive. So I decided to pop on preaching. When I turned YouTube on, they had a live message, and it was a young preacher. He's like maybe 34, 35. So I thought, I never heard of this guy before. I'm gonna listen to him. He was at a smaller church. They gave him the mic, and literally the first words out of his mouth. You heard the pastor tell you that I'm a church planner. Let me tell you four things about planning churches. Number one, you don't have any people. Number two, you don't have any money. Number three, you don't have any property. And number four, you don't have any volunteers to help you. Did I say that twice? It was property, money, people, and volunteers. You don't have any help. I thought to myself, why don't you just take a 357 and shoot yourself in the chest while you're at it? Death and life is in the power of the tongue. Do you want to know why you don't have any help? Why you don't have any people? Why you don't have any property and why you don't have any money? Because your mouth made it happen. Because you spoke it. You got around people that told you, like that guy in Utah. He said, I've never been around somebody like you. Because all I was saying was stuff like, if God called you here, he's gonna use you to shake this place. I said, Mormons get saved very easy. I said, their churches are extremely boring, they're looking for something with some life. He said, I never heard anybody talk like you. Then you need to start hanging around different people. Pastor Terry's my friend. He didn't tell me, heard you're going to Venezuela. Need to be careful down there. There's cartels. There's cartels in Colorado. What difference does it make? You need to be careful. It's gonna cost a lot of money, right? You know, that and then start, you know, you get sick down there, they have different diseases there. Some people, if you told them you were going on the mission field, all they'd talk is sickness, cost, and danger. And so you battle sickness, money, and danger because you hang around people that are focused on those things. But when you hang around people that are focused on victory and focused on God being El Shaddai and God being Jehovah Rapha, the Lord that heals you, and people focused on Psalm 91 that order your angels to protect you wherever you go. You stop worrying about what the devil's doing, and you stop and start making the devil worry about what you're getting ready to do. I tell you again tonight, get ready to make great impact on your generation for the gospel of Jesus Christ. You're gonna do what they said you're gonna do. You're gonna be what they said you're gonna be, you're gonna put it in your family. If you receive take 30 seconds, If you're black, you're black and blessed. God doesn't care what color you are. God's looking for faith. And when he finds faith, he'll deck you out with everything that works that belongs to you. Hallelujah. You know, I'm not black, but if I was, that wouldn't be a bad profile for your social media. Black and blessed. Hallelujah. I feel that echoing in my spirit. Black and blessed. Praise God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Be seated real quick. I'm gonna let you out of here. Let me tell you a story about where you're going. I leave with this. We were packing all our TV equipment into our Toyota camera. And it was weighing the car down, and it didn't have enough room in it for all the TV equipment my wife and I were traveling with. And we say, do what's in front of you to do. Yeah, my wife was accountant, TV setup, camera operator, film editor. We don't have anyone to help us. You got you, move. Take what's around you. If you're all you got's five swivel stones, collect them and fling them at a giant. Can you say amen? Quit saying what you don't have and start confessing what you do have. Let's start doing. Say I have more than enough. I have more than enough help. I have property with my name on it. Say it out loud, wherever the sole of my foot shall tread. I'm on land that God's given to me. You're a single woman and you want to get married? I can't find a husband, and you never will with your stupid mouth. God can't bless against your speaking. How many people does God want to be saved? But how come they're not all saved? Because they won't believe it and confess it. Until they do it, they can't be saved. God can't work against your confession. Can you say amen? So lift your hands one more time. Say, I'm blessed and highly favored. I'm the head and not the tail. I'm above and never beneath. Blessed in the city, blessed in the field, blessed when I come in. Blessed when I go out. You put your hands down, look up at me. So this is 2012. So I need an SUV. We had a breakthrough meeting in Huntington, Pennsylvania, and for the first time in our life, we had like $40 some thousand dollars in the bank, ministry bank, and I could get a vehicle. And this is back when I couldn't uh qualify for loans or anything, so if I didn't have the cash, I couldn't get it. So I could get a used Cadillac Escalade, which would take out about all the money back then. This is back in 2012. Obviously, now you want to be able to do that with that amount of money. Or I could get like a Chevy suburban or Tahoe, which is big enough, and I'd have more money left over. So I called my dad and I said, told him that. And I said, I love what a black Cadillac Escalade looks like. I think it's like a hot vehicle. But I said, I think it might be better, wisdom-wise, to get the Tahoe. He said, I agree with you. He said, It's not even a prosperity thing. He said, where you're preaching, like in Philadelphia, he said, you don't need to be driving a Cadillac in there. You're gonna come back after you're done preaching, the things are gonna be up on blocks. And so uh I said, you're right. So I made up my mind I'm gonna go get the Tahoe. In order to get the Tahoe, I had to drive by the Cadillac dealership. And I felt the Lord speak to me, I'm telling you, because I had already made up my mind I wasn't gonna do it. I was already enjoying the thought of having 20 extra thousand dollars instead of a nicer car and less money. And the Lord said, pull in there. I thought, all right, I'm not getting anything, but I can pull in. So I pulled in. I came to a stop. Salesman greeted me at the door. Can I look in the back cadillac? I said, not really. Okay. And as he's talking to me, a guy runs out of the dealership. Brother Jonathan. There's one place it was nice to be called brother. It's the Cadillac dealership. I said, You know me? He said, Do you remember me from uh he told me where? A certain meeting, like uh three years before that. He said, My son had Tourette syndrome, and he would tick so bad that they sent him home and paid us to homeschool him because it disrupted the class so much, that's the agreement we came to. So he couldn't go to school with his friends or anything. And he went to go hear you preach, and when you laid hands on him, he got the baptism of the Holy Ghost, and when he quit praying in tongues, he never ticked again. I said, Oh, praise the Lord. He said, Were you looking to get a Cadillac? I said, I am now. This is starting to feel gospelly. I feel like I'm in the flow. Everybody say I'm getting in the flow. Hallelujah. Feels good to be in the flow. And so he said, I don't know if you like escalades or not. Who doesn't like an escalade? Even John MacArthur secretly probably liked escalades. He said, uh, and I like black ones. He goes, somebody just turned in a black escalade, and he said, There it is. He said, We just put new tires on it. If you're interested in it as a favor, I'll sell it to you for what the dealership paid for it, plus the cost of the new tires, which was 700 and some bucks. The cost of that black escalade with the tires was less than what the Tahoe was gonna be. So God gave me the desire of my heart for less money than that. Well, I walk in, he said, Let me get it ready for you. Go in with that finance guy, and we'll get it set up. So the guy goes, How are you gonna be paying? Uh uh, he said, No, he said, fill out this paperwork and we'll see what kind of financing we can get, you reverend. I slid it back, boy, it feels good to do. Grab those papers and slid it back. I said, Who said anything about financing? And I pulled out a check and a pen. If you're under the age of 40, a check is a piece of paper that you can write down money on, and people believe that you have it, and it gives you enough time to get away. I said, just tell me how much it costs. And he said, We've never had anybody do that before. And I thought, Jesus is wonderful. Because let me tell you, if somebody would have told me two years before that that you'd walk into a Cadillac dealership and pay cash, and the whole miracle that worked out, what's the chance of that kid's dad being head of sales? Not a salesman, head of sales. And then do it. And then when people say, I don't believe prosperity is a God, I don't think the devil did that. What do you think the devil did that? Let's get him an escalade for half price. Hallelujah! So I I paid for that. And then they got they had a little lounge. I don't know if you can still do it now, but they had a lounge at that Cadillac dealership where you could smoke cigars and they had alcohol for people, you know, rich people's stuff. And while a couple guys were smoking cigars looking at me nervously, I walked around with my hands lifted, not obnoxiously. I just started praying and thanking God in tongues and a little bit in English. Thank you, Jesus, for what you brought me. While two guys looked at me like this. And I thought, look how different it is. Now the anointing's in this place. Now people are telling testimonies of their son getting healed from Tourette's. When the righteous have money, it starts changing the complexion of every place you go. Starts changing the cracker barrel, starts changing the steakhouses, starts changing the Christian schools, starts changing Radcliffe, starts changing Elizabethtown, starts changing Louisville. Stop looking for the answer out there and realize God has anointed you for such a time as this to be the answer to your generation. Stand on your feet one last time. Take 30 seconds. Give Jesus the biggest hand and the mighty shout. See your neck full of fish! Too much! More than enough! Somebody shout hallelujah! Lift your hands all over this place, Sister Clarita. Dealer's choice. We're gonna sing a song of price. We're not gonna wait till the nets are full. We're gonna praise God ahead of time. We're not wait till Cherokee Falls. We shout first! And we don't even have to fight. Go ahead, go ahead. Yes.
SPEAKER_06Oh yeah, baby. I will rejoice, for he has made me glad. I will rejoice, for he has made me glad.
SPEAKER_00God is the lifter of every heavy burden, including the heavy burden of poverty and the yoke of not having enough. What does the Bible say? Step one is. These promises apply to those that are the seed of Abraham. And everyone that is in Christ Jesus has become the seed of Abraham and is the heir is an heir according to the promise. Until you know Christ, you can positive confess all you want, you can study manifesting all you want. All kinds of new age people will tell you all kinds of things, but they're missing the fact that until you get born again, you still remain in the kingdom of darkness, and the devil can take you out at will. You can go to some new age shop and they're trying to sell you crystals. Comedian I like said, seeing as you have a whole basket full of crystals and you're in a trailer, how come they're not working? Can you say amen? Yeah, look at that store you're buying the crystals from. Those are supposed to bring wealth, they got the whole basket, they got nothing. Can you say amen? Smell like patchouli or whatever it's called. Maybe we say Jesus is the answer. If you're here tonight and you've never made Jesus Christ your Lord, let me see Psalm 23, one. Psalm 23, one. Look at the first thing that Psalm 23 says happens when Jesus becomes your shepherd. Psalm 23, one. The Lord is my shepherd. The Lord is my shepherd. It's getting very mumbly in here. Last four words. When Jesus becomes your shepherd, want goes away. I never understood opening up church. How many of you have a need? Why do you have a need? I have everything I need. No, but I need healed. Oh, yeah? You need Jesus to come down from heaven and take another stripe on his back for you? Wasn't enough? Calvary wasn't enough. No. The need you have is to deepen your revelation of the word of God. And when the light of that revelation breaks forth, your problems are over. You start becoming a problem to the powers of hell. And that's where you're going today in Jesus' name. I said that's where you're going today in Jesus' name. You heard me pray for the people in Philadelphia. Get rid of sin, or sin gets rid of you. Sin destroys the blessing. Sin gives you a basket with holes in it. But when you get saved, righteousness plugs all the holes. And you have you have a uh a basket that can retain the blessing. Can you say amen? Every head bowed, every eye closed. If you're here tonight and you've never made, listen carefully, if you've never made Jesus Christ your Lord and Savior, or you once did, and you fell away, and you're not right with God. I want you to get right with God tonight. Those of you that are watching on TV and on YouTube, text prayer to 75767. And I want you to include what are you believing God for tonight? You can get in on this with uh with everybody else in Kentucky. I'm not broke. I have a seed to sow, and that seed will destroy any poverty that's attached to my life. That's what tonight is. Tonight is we're putting a gun to poverty and blowing its head off in your life in Jesus' name. I'm sure there was a nicer way to make that point, but I said what I said. Today, poverty dies in your life. And the blessing of God, God's gonna start giving you unexpected blessings. Instead of unexpected bills and unexpected problems, there's gonna be unexpected good news. You're not gonna repeat the cycles of your mother and your aunts. You're gonna do great and mighty things, you're gonna walk a different path. And it starts with making Jesus Lord. If you're here and you say, Jonathan, that's me. And I want to receive, when you pray tonight, I want to be included in that prayer. I want to make Jesus Christ my Lord and shepherd, knowing He doesn't lead me into lack, he leads me out of lack. He leads me into blessing. He anoints my head with oil. My cup runneth over. If you're here and you say, Jonathan, when you pray tonight, I want you to include me in that prayer. I want tonight to be the night, May 2026. That's when I got things settled with God, and I was never the same. Quickly put your hand up high and I'll include you in the prayer. In Jesus' name, I want to give my life to the Lord tonight. I want to turn my back on sin tonight. Pull up nice and high where I can see. I see you. Come on, go ahead. You're already moving. Everybody lifted a hand. Come. People are already moving. Praise God. Praise God. Keep clapping, keep encouraging them.
SPEAKER_07Keep coming right to the middle. Who else before we pray? Yes, Lord, yes, Lord. Anybody else before we pray? Yes, Lord, yes, Lord, yes, yes, Lord, amen.
SPEAKER_00Good. All three of you lift your hands if you would. Pray this prayer with me from the depth of your heart. Say this nice and loud. Heavenly Father, I come to you tonight and I admit that I've sinned. I repent. I believe in my heart. You raised Jesus from the dead. I confess with my mouth. Jesus is Lord and my Savior. Right now, I receive forgiveness by the blood of Jesus. I am saved. I am forgiven. I am clean. In Jesus' name. Amen.
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